I asked Jack Newman MD about Zocor. He says it's "fine." Kathleen

At 11:00 PM 12/19/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I saw a mom today who normally has a very high cholesterol level.
>Prepregnancy she was on medication to lower it, but has been off of the drug
>for a year.(in order to get pregnantand during pregnancy)  New tests now
>show that her HDL level was 325 - way too high LDL levels are way over
>200(forgot to write that down). Of course, the Drs. only solution is to stop
>breastfeeding by the time the baby is 3 months and go on heavy drug therapy
>to lower her cholesterol levels. He is reccomending Zocor which Hale lists
>as an L3.  Most dietary things to lower cholesterol won't bring it down low
>enough and fast enough?  Am curious if anyone has any tricks for lowering
>cholesterol that I may not have thought of and if anyone has had experience
>with Zocor?  Mom has had a hard time nursing and is just beginning to see
>the light at the end of the tunnel. She doesn't really want to quit, but I'm
>hard pressed to argue with a Dr. who tells her the baby needs adequeate
>nutrition as well as a living mother, and out right scares her by saying
>"What's the point of breastfeeding if it kills you! A baby needs hermother!"
>What would you do???  Any and all ideas welcome.
>Thanks for the input!
>Peg Merrill, IBCLC
>
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